Unwanted intruder into Jonathan Trott’s bubble

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Trott has been described by Prior as the ‘most sledged man in county cricket’Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

Gideon Haigh

Last updated at 12:01AM, November 26 2013

Mental disintegration, anyone? After a defeat on the scale of England’s at the Gabba, psychological speculation is almost mandatory. But in one crucial case, it was scarcely necessary — there was the evidence of our own eyes.

In Brisbane, Jonathan Trott was more at sea than Thor Heyerdahl.David Warner notoriously called it “backing away”, but more properly it was fronting away, toppling towards the off as Mitchell Johnson homed in on leg, swishing and shovelling at passing lifters to which he could have realistically abjured a stroke, and perishing on the brink first of lunch then of the close as though